I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading —
It vexes me to choose another guide —
— Emily Brontë

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The new blog House Red is up and running. Recent posts may be accessed through the menu on the left column of this page.

Upcoming Poetry Readings

7 August 2010
Three Men of a Certain Age
Ric Vrana, Rogers Truax, David Matthews
St. Johns Booksellers Market Day Poetry Series
St. Johns Booksellers
8622 N Lombard Street
Portland, OR
Noon – 1:00 p.m.

14 August 2010
Sharmagne Leland-St. John and David Matthews
PoetsWest at the Green Lake Branch
Seattle Public Library
7364 E. Green Lake Drive N
Seattle, WA 98115
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. (open mic follows featured readers)

poetry reading video

Oregon Literary Review First Wednesday
Michael Shay, Rogers Truax, Ric Vrana, David Matthews
Blackbird Wine Shop
2 December 2009

3 Friends Caffeinated Arts Poetry Readings
Produced by Show and Tell Gallery

Caffeinated Art #20
Judith Fay Pulman, Heather Browne, David Matthews
3 Friends Coffee House
10 November 2008

Caffeinated Art #63
Norval Willey, Curtis Whitecarroll, David Matthews
3 Friends Coffee House
28 September 2009

Literary News

Chapter one of Chuck Oliveros’s novel Buster Bungle’s Big Top can now be found at Hawking Up Hairballs.

Tommy Gaffney’s Whiskey Days is available from Night Bomb Press and at Powell’s Books.

Ric Vrana’s Brain Screams is available at Powell’s Books and St. Johns Booksellers.

about the author

David Matthews is a native of the South Carolina Midlands who resided in Atlanta for twenty years before coming to Portland, Oregon, in 1998.

Poems have appeared in Chattahoochee Review, Night Bomb Review, Quill and Parchment, Red River Review, Tryst, the anthologies Blown Out: Portland’s indie poets, Finished Product, Ouroborus, and Raising Our Voices: an anthology of Oregon poets against the War, the poetry blog Magnapoets, and elsewhere.

The blog Memo from the Fringes has been put out to pasture but will remain online for the time being.

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